The AFIR-ERM Section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) has as its primary objective the promotion of actuarial research in enterprise risk management and particularly financial risk fields, to push forward the boundaries of actuarial knowledge and to promote and facilitate an international exchange of views, advice, research and practical information among actuaries and other experts involved in these fields. The AFIR-ERM Section is thus pleased to announce research grants to fund new original research leading to a research paper on innovations in this field in general and particularly on digital innovation in actuarial science.

Proposal submissions are due by February 1, 2024 and must be submitted in the English language. Authors should submit proposals, including the title, a short description of the topic(s) to be addressed, the approach that will be taken (e.g. literature search, model, etc.), emphasizing issues that require special consideration and a statement that the research has not been published and is not being considered for publication at the moment of submission. At least one of the authors has to be a member of the AFIR-ERM Section prior to the date of the submission. 
Full details of the Call for Research and submission guidelines are available here.
 
Submissions should be sent via e-mail to the AFIR-ERM Section of the IAA: AFIR.research@actuaries.org

Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Alexander Bohnert,
Chair AFIR-ERM Section

The Enterprise and Financial Risk Forum (EFRF) and AFIR-ERM Section are conducting a short survey of individual actuaries to evaluate the current regarding global use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in actuarial work. The EFRF will compile and distribute summaries of results of the survey to help inform IAA initiatives and to support member associations and individual actuaries. Please feel free to forward this survey to other interested actuaries and actuarial organizations.
 
We would appreciate your help by taking about 5 minutes of your time to respond to this short survey by 15 December 2023.
 

Please use the link below to submit your responses here.

Please feel free to contact Nancy Kelly at the IAA Secretariat (nancy.kelly@actuaries.org) if you have any questions.

Thank you in advance for your contribution, which is greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Paul Braithwaite, Chair EFRF
Paul.Braithwaite@FTIconsulting.com

Yosuke Fujisawa, Vice-Chair EFRF
yousuke_huzisawa@am.sumitomolife.co.jp

Prof. Dr. Alexander Bohnert, Chair AFIR-ERM Section alexander.bohnert@fau.de